panchoveeya
Jr. Member
- Feb 5, 2013
- 53
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- Detector(s) used
- Bounty Hunter Platinum
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
So I'm out of town and happen to have some free time and I find a community park and decide to hit it. When I show up I see a employee from the parks dept. repairing a sprinkler and I courteously ask him if I can detect at the park? He replies, "It doesn't matter to me, go right ahead." Then jokingly says, " I get half right?" I tell him, sure, if I find a pile of gold I'll share with you. We both laugh it off and I head to my car for my detector. So I start in the dirt picnic area and about 5 minutes into my hunt, another truck pulls up and a man steps out and approaches me. He asks me how its going and then tells me, " Sorry, I understand what you're doing and all, but I can't have you leaving soft spots in the dirt. It rains and it gets all muddy." I kind of disagreed in my head because the dirt was so hard I couldn't even dig 2 inches with my trowel, but I did not say anything. I then asks if I may MD in the grass area. He tells me that he can't have holes everywhere because kids play there all the time and they could hurt their ankle or something. So I went ahead and explained to him that there's a code of ethics for Mding and that there are ways to retrieve stuff without leaving holes like the "plug" method. He actually listen to what I was explaining and he changed his mind and told me if I can do it that way then go right ahead as long as I didn't leave holes. Sometimes that's all it takes. Let them know that there is a right way of practicing our hobby and they can relate. Since he was the bossman, that kind of gave me a pass for all parks in that city. Too bad its quite a ways from home : (
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